Representative Men in Literature, Science, and Art
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ISBN13: 9780217987677
Paperback|9780217987677
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. SiE John Bowring is descended from an ancient Devonshire family, which gave its name to the estate of Bowringsleigh, in the parish of West Allington. The Bowrings had for many generations been engaged in the woollen trade of Devon, and in the year 1670 coined tokens for the payment of their workmen bearing the inscription, with a wool-comb for a device, John Bowring, of Chulmleigh, his halfpenny. The subject of our memoir is the eldest son of the late Charles Bowring, Esq., of Larkbeare, by Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Lane, of St. Ives, Cornwall, and was born in the city of Exeter, on the 1 7th of October, 1792. Having received the rudiments of an ordinary education in the school of the Rev. J. H. Brausby, at Moreton- hampstead, Devon, he entered a merchant's house at Exeter, as a clerk; but soon gave evidence of a higher order of abilities than those which fitted him for the counting-house. But his connection with mercantile pursuits necessitated much foreign travel and intercourse with many Continental nations, and gave facilities for studying the character, for entering into the domestic circles, and for learning and speaking the languages of the countries in which he temporarily dwelt. In 1822 he was arrested at Calais, being the bearer of dispatches to the Portuguese ministers, announcing the intended invasion of the Peninsula by the Bourbon Government of France, and detained for several weeks; during a considerable portion of which he was excluded from all communication. Canning insisted on an indictment or a release; but having been accused of complicity in the attempt to rescue the young sergeants of La Rochelle, who were executed for singing republican songs, he was released without trial, but condemned to perpetual...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217987677 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217987672 |
| Weight | 0.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 118 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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